Author: Josh

It’s been snowing for the last few hours here. Snow! We had a midnight snowball fight, and I made a snow angel on the sidewalk. I love how quiet it gets when it snows. Is it that the acoustics are different, or is it that nobody’s out driving and making noise?

My tape measure says there are over 5 inches of snow out front. Wow. (Hey. We don’t get a lot of snow in Seattle, ok?)

My fiancee and I are sitting on the couch with a bridal magazine (which must weigh 8 pounds) and a laptop. She’s going through the magazine looking for interesting ads with URLs. She points out a dress to me which I swear to god looks exactly like another dress in another ad and says something about the embroidery being annoying. For the life of me, I can’t tell the difference between these two dresses.

This must be what it’s like for her when I come back from work bitching about having to upgrade the java vm on all the production machines because a developer used a function which was broken in 1.2.2_03 but works in 1.2.2_05.

I saw Hannibal on friday. I read it a few months ago. My goodness, the book was bad. The movie had a much better ending. I won’t spoil anything; there are plenty of sites out there which will tell you what happens. I suggest Rotten Tomatoes.

There was some very nice cinematography. It had that Ridley Scott look and feel, with the washed-out contrasty thing he does.

That’s all I really wanted to say about Hannibal. Oh, except that Julianne Moore was quite good.

What I really want to comment on is product placement. How much money could NetZero have paid, that the filmmakers didn’t mind what effectively was a pause for sponsor identification in the middle of the film?

I have a proposal. If it’s really necessary to pay for a film by whoring yourself out to soliciting placement shots from advertisers, can we make two versions? I’d pay a dollar extra to see a movie without the internal ads. Hell, I’d pay another dollar to see the movie without the damn Pepsi ad at the beginning, after the previews.

These are a few of the things people have been searching the web for recently. I know this because somehow those searches turned up a page on elsewhere.org. How do I know this? I’ve got a program keeping tabs on the access logs of my web server, and extracting search information.

I’ve just installed this web journal thing. I refuse to call it a “blog”. Who thought that was a good name? For anything? “Web log” already means something. A web log is the file a web server writes to whenever there’s a hit to the site, like so: